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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Literary Critic
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Plainfield
New Jersey
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If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.
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It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
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The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
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You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.
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At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
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It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable it is our duty to make it available.
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Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
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God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
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Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition
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We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.
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We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
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If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.
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To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.
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Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
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A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
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